SwedishAmerican’s Brookside immediate care clinic changing location

ROCKFORD — SwedishAmerican Health System is moving its busiest immediate care clinic a few miles east to a larger and more modern space.

Brookside Immediate and Occupational Care, 1215 N. Alpine Road, will move next year to the former SwedishAmerican Regional Cancer Center/ACT space at 2473 McFarland Road, just east of the Perryville and Spring Creek roads intersection.

The health system acquired the ACT space in 2010 but no longer needs it for cancer care since opening its Regional Cancer Center last month on Bell School Road.

The move is expected to happen by February, said Noel Nickel, SwedishAmerican’s director of primary care operations. The health system owns the Brookside building on Alpine, but Nickel said officials haven’t decided what to do with it yet.

Brookside Specialty Center, which is in a separate building at 1253 N. Alpine Road, is staying put.

The ACT building is smaller in total square footage than the Brookside building — which has two stories and a finished basement — but Nickel said the space devoted to immediate care will be larger.

Brookside sees about 35,000 patient visits a year for immediate- and occupational- care needs. Nickel said officials studied where those patients live and learned that most of them drive from all across the region.

“Anytime you move, you worry about the impact it’s going to have on folks,” Nickel said. “It’s hard to pick a spot that’s convenient for the majority of people because they’re coming from such a wide range of places.

“We’re hoping the inconvenience will be minimal.”

Brookside is open now from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on holidays. Nickel said the hours will stay the same at the new location for the near future.

SwedishAmerican also has immediate care services at its Roscoe and Marengo clinics.

Melissa Westphal: 815-987-1341; mwestphal@rrstar.com; @mlwestphal

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